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Justin warned me, ‘don’t carry two of them at a time, you don’t want to hurt yourself.” I didn’t listen.  He was referring to the cement blocks we were carrying into the basement of his soon to be new home.  I should have listened, the next trip I only carried one.  He had been doing this all week and was far wiser than I on these matters of how many cement blocks you should carry at a time.  We made trip after trip around the corner ferrying items from the old place to the new place.  The day continued, the cold continued, the bins continued.  We got most of it by the time I left but there was still plenty more work left for Mary & Justin.  They rewarded me with New Haven Apizza.  I was happy.  I’m easy that way.  Give me some pizza and I’ll do almost anything for you…
except moving…
I think I’m done with that

Sitting here a few weeks later, I find a nice little box at the door.  It was heavy for it’s size. The kind of heavy that you know is gonna be good.  The kind of heavy that when you pick it up, and shake it, it doesn’t move because it’s using up all the space in the box.  The kind of heavy that is either going to be something shiny or something delicious.  The kind of heavy that…. well, you get the picture.  Anyways, it was the later…. the delicious kind.

All these chocolates got me thinking.  First, that I should have stayed on the elliptical an extra half hour today, but also, that things have a funny way of working out.  Justin & Mary searched for a year for the perfect house all over the state and ended up finding it right in front of them, just around the corner.  By moving a few feet down the road, their view changes tremendously.  It goes from an old apartment building across the street, to waterfront sunsets every evening.  I’m thinking the next time I feel like I need to move mountains to achieve my goals, maybe all I really need to do is take a few steps.  I just need to change my angle, my view of it.  Then maybe I’ll see what I was missing in the first place, and if I still don’t see it, then at least I’ve taken a few more steps towards it.

Anyways, thanks for the chocolates Justin & Mary.  They’re delicious.
I was thinking of writing something clever about how the two of you are like these chocolates, with one of you being the caramel and the other being the chocolate covering… but I’ll leave that to you, Mary.  I don’t think I can pull it off.

For those of you not familiar with Justin & Mary, you can check out their fanatastic wedding and engagment photography at justinmarantz.com

And for those of you wanting to try these awesome caramels… you can either come over and bribe me, or check them out here:

V Chocolates Factory
440 West Lawndale Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
(801) 269-8444